The title of the most virtuoso violinist of all times and peoples Niccolò Paganini wore by right. It remains with him now, a few hundred years after his death. His contemporaries claimed that he was probably born already with a violin in his hands – how else could his unique talent be explained?
Mad glory surrounded Niccolò Paganini during his lifetime. True, his personality has always remained rather mysterious. Contemporaries described the great violinist as a rather gloomy and gloomy person. Gambling for money was Paganini’s main passion throughout his life. The father of the violinist was a regular loader who worked in the port. Already at the age of 8, Paganini wrote a sonata for violin. From early childhood, the despotic father forced the young Niccolo to play music for days on end, without even letting him go for a walk on the street. From such loads, the boy fell into a coma and was almost buried alive, as he was considered dead. Once Paganini argued that he would be able to conduct an entire orchestra with a violin with only two strings. And, of course, he won the concluded bet.
There was a tumultuous romance between the violinist and the two sisters of Napoleon Bonaparte, but both of them did not last long. On the birthday of Napoleon, Paganini also played a single string on the argument. The violinist never had good health and was often sick. When the father of the young Niccolò led him to the famous violinist Alessandro Rolla, he heard the child’s play and said that he couldn’t teach him anything, because he already knows everything.
For three years, Paganini lived with a certain noble lady in her estate in Tuscany, but he hid her name so carefully that it never came to us. At one time, Paganini served as captain of the personal guard of Eliza Bonaparte, sister of the French emperor. The violinist gave the first concert when he was only eleven years old. Paganini argued that the secret of his skill lies in the complete and undivided spiritual fusion with the violin.
